Book Review: Official commemoration without conflict is rare. Struggling over how best to know ourselves is not unique to the twenty-first century. Cecilia Morgan, a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, recounts in Commemorating Canada how Canadians have always grappled with making meaning of their shared and divisive history.
Book Review: Dr. Oronhyatekha (Burning Sky) was baptized Peter Martin in 1841 in the Mohawk Territory of the Six Nations of the Grand River, near Brantford, Ontario.
Book Review: In response to academic and public criticisms of conflict studies, this book shows how war provides a window into the human condition and demonstrates how important it is that we continue to study the subject.
Book Review: In twenty-two articles, leading scholars shed new light on the elusive figure who has been previously ignored by historians, former Primer Minister from 1948 to 1957, Louis St. Laurent.
Fiction Feature: Two men built the residential school system that harmed so many Indigenous people. One man spoke up and was ignored. Their reputations have reversed over the past century. All three lie in Ottawa’s Beechwood Cemetery.
Book Review: John Boyko’s book introduces six “guides” — Canadians and others who came to Canada — who invite readers into their experience of the Vietnam War.
Book review: As hockey’s brainiest practitioner, Ken Dryden knows that the essence of a good story is memory and feeling. Hence the subtitle of his ninth book, The Series: What I Remember, What It Felt Like, What It Feels Like Now.
